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"the South, which supposedly believed in states' rights and local autonomy, pressed for this law which allowed the federal government to completely override the legal processes in the North" Eric Foner is saying that the South doesn't actually care about states rights they just care about slavery because they are asking the North to go against their laws with the fugitive slave act.

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"all for which the slave States have ever contended, is to be let alone and permitted to manage their domestic institutions in their own way." James Buchanan is saying that the government is too involved and the South wants to leave

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Democratic President James Buchanan’s “State of the Union” Address to Congress (1860)

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"the American Anti-Slavery Society, which was inaugurated to convert the nation, after ten years’ struggle, parts with its faith, and aims now to save the North." Douglass is saying that the American Anti-Slavery Society was started for a good cause but has become too violent.

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Copy of Frederick Douglass - Lecture on the Anti-Slavery Movement

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"Another hallmark of terrorists is indiscriminate killing; it helps spread terror. Terrorists generally do not care who they kill—adults, children, old people, women, men—although sometimes assassinations are an exception to this." This quote is saying that John Brown and by extension the North are terrorists.

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Copy of John Brown - How should he be remembered?

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"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists." Lincoln is saying that he has no plans to do anything about slavery in the states where it is legal.

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"The leading feature of the compromise of 1850 was congressional non-intervention as to slavery in the Territories; that the people of the Territories, and of all the States, were to be allowed to do as they pleased upon the subject of slavery, subject only to the provisions of the Constitution of the United States." The South is saying that the North is trying to take away there right to own slaves.

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Copy of A Whig and a Democrat debate the Kansas-Nebraska Act

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"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." This quote means that not only does Lincoln have no intent on ending slavery but he doesn't believe he could even if he wanted to.

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Copy of Lincoln's First Inaugural Address

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In the picture there is a black man being portrayed as having bad grammar with the caption "MONKEY UNCOMMON UP, MASA!" which shows that the south viewed black people as monkeys and that Lincoln wanted them to become citizens which they believed would destroy their way of life.

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"Monkey Uncommon Up, Massa!" Lincoln's Election, Punch Magazine, December 1, 1860

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How to Cite This Page: ""Monkey Uncommon Up, Massa!" Lincoln's Election, Punch Magazine, December 1, 1860," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/34105.

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"He would at times seem to take great pleasure in whipping a slave. I have often been awakened at the dawn of day by the most heart-rending shrieks of an own aunt of mine, whom he used to tie up to a joist, and whip upon her naked back till she was literally covered with blood. No words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory victim, seemed to move his iron heart from its bloody purpose. The louder she screamed, the harder he whipped; and where the blood ran fastest, there he whipped longest." This excerpt from Frederick Douglass' autobiography explains how awful slavery was. It proves that the argument that slaves were happy made by the cartoon was incredibly incorrect.

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Copy of Frederick Douglass autobiography excerpt

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“Slavery is a positive good for America, and for slaves themselves.”

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“Slavery is a positive good for America, and for slaves themselves.”

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“The Federal Government is trampling on the rights of the people to make decisions for themselves.”

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“The Federal Government is trampling on the rights of the people to make decisions for themselves.”

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The left cartoon shows slaves being treated well. They look happy and are dancing. An old man is given a chair. They look like a happy family. Compared to people living in poverty in Britain with a mother dying on the right. There is pollution in the back. This is trying to shows that you would be happier as a slave then working a job.

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“Northern Abolitionists are dangerous radicals.”

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“Northern Abolitionists are dangerous radicals.”

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“The Republican Party is an abolitionist party.”

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“The Republican Party is an abolitionist party.”

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“Lincoln will destroy the south and the institution of slavery.”

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“Lincoln will destroy the south and the institution of slavery.”